Dictionary

busful en · NOUN

Etymology

From bus + -ful.

Meanings

1. An amount sufficient to fill a bus.
   • Due to the arrival of a busful of Bavarian tourists, the noise in the hotel lobby was deafening. 2013, Serge Quadruppani, The Sudden Disappearance of Worker Bees, Arcade Publishing (2013; original French novel published 2011), unnumbered page
   • Among the 50,000 were busesful from Coegnant, Caerau and Cwmdu Collieries in Maesteg and delegates from pits in the Afan and Garw Valleys. 1953 October 23, “Angry Miners Threaten To ‘Down’ The Government”, in Glamorgan Advertiser, volume 33, number 1760, page 5:
   • Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, […] 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 89:
   • Today the bridge was at its best, Annie thought, showing off for the tourists—there were at least ten busesful in sight. 1988, Octavia Street, Words of Love, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 28:
   • I had a busful of fifth-grade students expecting a field trip. 2012, Ronald Vaughan Morris, History and Imagination: Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 1:
   • We had dissolved, busesful of us, to the beach and the hypermarket, to the Boutique Diana, le Royal Baby, the Hotel Folkestone or the Café l’Hovercraft. 1982, Libby Purves, Britain at Play, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 92:
   • The trip was made Friday in two bouncing busesful, under the chaperonage and direction of Mr. CYRUS DANIEL. 1946 April 7, “Campus Capers”, in The Nashville Tennessean, volume 39, number 326, Nashville, Tenn., page 9-B:

Forms

Relateds

omnibusful

Translations (2)

fi bussillinen (amount sufficient to fill a bus) · fi bussilasti (amount sufficient to fill a bus)